Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous